Search Results for: Canada

BY PHILIP FINE

CANADA’S DynaMotive Energy Systems will build a plant in British Columbia this year to convert 100 tonnes per day of biomass into nearly 16,000 gallons of fuel. The company’s process called fast pyrolysis converts forestry and agricultural residues into BioOil, an alternative-fuel product.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ALTHOUGH an investigation by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency did not discover another case of BSE, following the lone outbreak that has devastated Canada’s beef exports, further instances may well follow, a member of the International Committee on Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy has warned.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A KYOTO Protocol secretariat report has warned that the industrialised world’s greenhouse gas emissions will probably grow this decade, having stabilised during the 1990’s. Based on national government projections, the paper claims combined global warming emissions of Europe, Japan, the US and other highly industrialised countries could grow by eight per cent from 2000 to 2010, (17 per cent over 1990 levels), despite measures already in place to limit them.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A KYOTO Protocol secretariat report has warned that the industrialised world’s greenhouse gas emissions will probably grow this decade, having stabilised during the 1990’s. Based on national government projections, the paper claims combined global warming emissions of Europe, Japan, the US and other highly industrialised countries could grow by eight per cent from 2000 to 2010, (17 per cent over 1990 levels), despite measures already in place to limit them.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AN AMERICAN beef company has turned to Canada to provide a steady supply of organic beef to the EU. The Dakota Beef Company signed an exclusive agreement with the Canadian Organic Livestock Association to try to meet European demands for hormone-free meat.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has signed an international charter on the capture and storage deep underground of carbon dioxide, also involving Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Italy, India, Japan, Mexico, Norway, China, Russia, Britain and the US. This Sequestration Leadership Forum is developing schemes to capturing CO2 at source and storing it for thousands of years deep underground, probably in depleted oil and gas wells, with the aim of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.…

BY RICHARD HURST
THE DEMOCRATIC Republic of the Congo government has announced that it intends to increase the country’s falling copper production by refurbishing the Kamoto mine with assistance from Canada’s Kinross Gold Corporation.

Jean-Louis Nkulu Kitshunku, mining minister, said that the deal between the state-owned mining corporation Cecamines and Kinross would was nearing completion and would see the mine’s output increase to 50,000 tonnes of copper per annum in 2004.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE STORAGE of CO2 deep underground in uneconomic coal seams is one key option being considered by the (carbon) Sequestration Leadership Forum, which has just been joined by the European Commission. Other members are Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Italy, India, Japan, Mexico, Norway, China, Russia, Britain and the US.…

BY PHILIP FINE, in Toronto

A PROCESS that can convert old chip oil and other food waste into inexpensive bio-diesel will soon be available to food and catering companies. Canada’s Biox Corp. says its first bolt-on bio-fuel processing plant should open this summer in Oakville, Ontario.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
MICRO-BREWERIES in Quebec, Canada, are to launch an advertising campaign to inform consumers of alleged unfair practices big beer companies use to make their products less accessible to the public, after they lost a legal complaint over the issue.…